Sunday, January 08, 2006

Hope floats, sugar sinks

What a fun experiment: Apparently if you put both a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke in a tank of water, the Coke will sink, and the Diet Coke will float. (I love how the Web page, apparently meant for teachers, orders them to "look surprised.")

Can anyone try this at home and verify it? I personally never touch sugared sodas, since I have a few million other ways to get unwanted calories, so I have none in the house. Although a certain software company in whose offices I might just spend a lot of time has plenty of both sodas on hand. Hmm ...

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I can attest that this is true. Friends of mine did this (back in '91) as science fair project. They demonstrated it in an aquarium, just like the photo. It seemed to work for other types of diet pop as well.

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